{"id":1756,"date":"2008-07-22T10:03:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T10:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/atlanta_bike_laws\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:06:27","slug":"atlanta-bike-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/atlanta-bike-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Bike Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta bicycle accidents and injuries are increasing at an alarming rate, as we have previously written. Yesterday, the Atlanta Journal Constitution published a story which echoed our information and addressed the growing conflict between bikers and automobile drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Many bike riders, and most motorists, do not realize that under Georgia law and in most other states, a bike is considered a vehicle; and, with some exceptions, is subject to the same laws and rules as a motor vehicle. There are specific laws which relate only to bicycles and we will address some of them here. At a later time we will discuss some of the most pertinent general vehicle laws as they apply to bicycles.<\/p>\n<p>The laws specific to bicycles are found in the Georgia Official Code beginning at section 40-6-290. That section provides that the laws which follow apply to bicycles while on the roadways and on any path set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles.  The next section, 40 &#8211; 6- 291 makes bicycles subject to the laws applying to other vehicles on the roadways.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/atlanta-bike-laws\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Atlanta Bike Laws\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta bicycle accidents and injuries are increasing at an alarming rate, as we have previously written. Yesterday, the Atlanta Journal Constitution published a story which echoed our information and addressed the growing conflict between bikers and automobile drivers. Many bike riders, and most motorists, do not realize that under Georgia law and in most other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-injury-wrongful-death","tag-personal-injury"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Atlanta Bike Laws &#8212; Trial Attorney Blog &#8212; July 22, 2008<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Atlanta bicycle accidents and injuries are increasing at an alarming rate, as we have previously written. Yesterday, the Atlanta Journal Constitution &#8212; July 22, 2008\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/atlanta-bike-laws\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Atlanta Bike Laws &#8212; Trial Attorney Blog &#8212; July 22, 2008\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Atlanta bicycle accidents and injuries are increasing at an alarming rate, as we have previously written. Yesterday, the Atlanta Journal Constitution &#8212; July 22, 2008\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Finch McCranie, LLP\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Atlanta Bike Laws &#8212; Trial Attorney Blog &#8212; July 22, 2008","description":"Atlanta bicycle accidents and injuries are increasing at an alarming rate, as we have previously written. Yesterday, the Atlanta Journal Constitution &#8212; July 22, 2008","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/atlanta-bike-laws\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Atlanta Bike Laws &#8212; Trial Attorney Blog &#8212; July 22, 2008","twitter_description":"Atlanta bicycle accidents and injuries are increasing at an alarming rate, as we have previously written. Yesterday, the Atlanta Journal Constitution &#8212; July 22, 2008","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Finch McCranie, LLP","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/atlanta-bike-laws\/","url":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/atlanta-bike-laws\/","name":"Atlanta Bike Laws &#8212; Trial Attorney Blog &#8212; July 22, 2008","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2008-07-22T10:03:14+00:00","dateModified":"2024-12-17T21:06:27+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/4c607d19a3fdb947c462210c077ff4a4"},"description":"Atlanta bicycle accidents and injuries are increasing at an alarming rate, as we have previously written. Yesterday, the Atlanta Journal Constitution &#8212; July 22, 2008","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/atlanta-bike-laws\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/atlanta-bike-laws\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/atlanta-bike-laws\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Atlanta Bike Laws"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/","name":"Trial Attorney Blog","description":"Published by Georgia Trial Lawyers \u2014 Finch McCranie, LLP","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/4c607d19a3fdb947c462210c077ff4a4","name":"Finch McCranie, LLP","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0ac10eb5fe0f322f70ad7a84f6c73584e7381799013c841fb9f2ecf347e28d71?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0ac10eb5fe0f322f70ad7a84f6c73584e7381799013c841fb9f2ecf347e28d71?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Finch McCranie, LLP"}}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33415,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/33415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}